IRAN and world powers have announced new talks on Tehran's nuclear programme will take place later this month.
However, hopes of progress were weakened when an Iranian official said the West's goal in talking was to undermine the Islamic republic.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council announced the meeting, to be held on February 26, in comments to state news agency IRNA.
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